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>> maureen is really down on susan rice. this is the second anti-rice column she's done. >> i know susan rice should be a terrific secretary of state and hope she has at a minimum has a chance to go before the senate to have an opportunity to share with the country her views, vision and more importantly why she would make a great succe success -- >> was she just the messenger in all this? >> i take the president at his word. the buck stops with the president and he shared with the senate -- i thought he shared it in somewhat an elegant way if you want to pick a fight, pick a fight with me. >> hung out to dry on that but given talking points that -- >> it was curious to listen to mccain yesterday after the meeting who seemed to be more bothered after the meeting than he was before the meeting. >> all three of them said they were more troubled -- >> i can't tell if it was the facts around benghazi or actually the ambassador herself that rankled feathers more. >> what do you mean by that. >> if and the she -- if answers she pro
>> maureen is really down on susan rice. this is the second anti-rice column she's done. >> i know susan rice should be a terrific secretary of state and hope she has at a minimum has a chance to go before the senate to have an opportunity to share with the country her views, vision and more importantly why she would make a great succe success -- >> was she just the messenger in all this? >> i take the president at his word. the buck stops with the president and he...
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rice because susan rice read the intel briefings. she knew what the truth was and she chose to read something, if the script was handed to her, dowd's point, steve ratner, if the script was inaccurate and misleading, she shouldn't have read it. >> i think we have to go through this logically. what we know -- i think what we know is the cia produced a set of talking points that included al qaeda, included more specific references to what happened. somewhere during interagency process, and i've been through a bunch of these processes people mark them up. somewhere along the way those words were changed. >> al qaeda was taken. and the suggestion is by republicans that it was political. that's one suggestion. and, again, the president's punch line for a lot of speeches, osama bin laden's dead, al qaeda is on the run. >> that's one suggestion but before you get to the question of what susan rice should or shouldn't have said i think we immediate to know the answer of who changed the talking points and why. >>> coming up, why mitt still do
rice because susan rice read the intel briefings. she knew what the truth was and she chose to read something, if the script was handed to her, dowd's point, steve ratner, if the script was inaccurate and misleading, she shouldn't have read it. >> i think we have to go through this logically. what we know -- i think what we know is the cia produced a set of talking points that included al qaeda, included more specific references to what happened. somewhere during interagency process, and...
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rice had and that susan rice spoke to in those appearances. >> we already know that. we're hoping to get new information out of the hearings tomorrow. there's still unanswered questions. >> and we'll get our first look at david petraeus since all this exploded less than a week ago. >>> coming up next, mitt romney reflected on why he lost the analysis and his analysis anger some in his own party. what he said next in the "politico playbook." >>> also, we'd talk to senator-elect angus king who announced yesterday he will caucus with the democrats. nbc news political director, chuck todd, will be with us along with nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell and later, "american idol" judge randy jackson. how's that for a lineup? >>> first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> don't even fit after randy. not even close. and the sexiest guy alive. rough competition this morning. good morning, everyone. here's what we're dealing with out there. we're a week away from thanksgiving. we don't need any travel headaches as we get towards the busy season. do
rice had and that susan rice spoke to in those appearances. >> we already know that. we're hoping to get new information out of the hearings tomorrow. there's still unanswered questions. >> and we'll get our first look at david petraeus since all this exploded less than a week ago. >>> coming up next, mitt romney reflected on why he lost the analysis and his analysis anger some in his own party. what he said next in the "politico playbook." >>> also, we'd...
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. >> how to prepare rice for thanksgiving, but let's talk about susan rice. >> a good snack. it's nice to see. >> it's not just a snack anymore. it's the san francisco treat, but go ahead. >> it's nice that senator mccain still has the capacity to read the writing on the wall. you know, the story over the last few days has been, you know, listening to republicans who have not taken such an aggressive position as he had taken, you know, kind of quietly saying the only way we can stop her is to filibuster her, and that's not a fight we want as he starts to realize the rest of the republican party in the senate is not ready to do that, he's climbing down from his rather absurd position of last week. >> you know, he says, willie, he watches "morning joe" every morning. i think he heard us suggest -- >> steam coming out of his ears. >> but he realized, though, we were right. we were right again. that maybe they shouldn't kick around susan rice after this election. >> i maintain that there are real questions to be asked and answered about what happened. but the way that senator mcc
. >> how to prepare rice for thanksgiving, but let's talk about susan rice. >> a good snack. it's nice to see. >> it's not just a snack anymore. it's the san francisco treat, but go ahead. >> it's nice that senator mccain still has the capacity to read the writing on the wall. you know, the story over the last few days has been, you know, listening to republicans who have not taken such an aggressive position as he had taken, you know, kind of quietly saying the only way...
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but susan rice was sent to give a white house message. it was not an intelligence community message. and there's a very clear distinction in that. >> andrea, it's david up here in new york. i have a question for you on some of the bigger fights here. i mean, isn't this really beyond the susan rice questions, which i know are going to be litigated fiercely, about what was happening on the ground in terms of protecting u.s. personnel, namely the ambassador, what kind of coordination was there, or was there not between the cia presence which was substantial in benghazi and state department security? >> well, i think those are the questions that i would suspect senator chambliss and dianne feinstein and their house counterparts are also going to be asking because they want to know the time line. they had five separate beyond warnings, five separate incidents, as senator feinstein has made very clear. and as we have been told. five separate incidents in benghazi against the british ambassador, against our own consulate in the months leading up
but susan rice was sent to give a white house message. it was not an intelligence community message. and there's a very clear distinction in that. >> andrea, it's david up here in new york. i have a question for you on some of the bigger fights here. i mean, isn't this really beyond the susan rice questions, which i know are going to be litigated fiercely, about what was happening on the ground in terms of protecting u.s. personnel, namely the ambassador, what kind of coordination was...
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and now we hear that maybe two or three senators that don't like what susan rice did on a sunday show a couple of weeks ago could aeffectively stand in the way of having the president having the secretary of state that he wants out there in the world. is that another reform? >> they don't seem enthusiastic about that. my favorite is jim bunning, the republican from kentucky, once put a hold on a nomination, i think, to the trade commission because he was upset that canada was borrowing chocolate-flavored cigars and importing them. so you can put a hold on for anything. and they seemed to kind of like that. that doesn't seem to be on the top of their priority list. the top is just to be able to get a bill to the floor and have a debate on it without having the 60-vote thing. >> i think to follow up on joe's point about the susan rice issue and the idea of a hold, what are the political impacts of filibusters in this new environment that we find ourselves in post-election and particularly with respect to the susan rice piece which is -- ha, gender, all these little sexy pieces to it, ho
and now we hear that maybe two or three senators that don't like what susan rice did on a sunday show a couple of weeks ago could aeffectively stand in the way of having the president having the secretary of state that he wants out there in the world. is that another reform? >> they don't seem enthusiastic about that. my favorite is jim bunning, the republican from kentucky, once put a hold on a nomination, i think, to the trade commission because he was upset that canada was borrowing...